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I can already hear the blues soundtrack playing from a speaker on the front porch as I pull into the parking lot adjacent to an old house in Crossett. It's late on a Wednesday afternoon, and I'm in this far south Arkansas town, known as the Forestry Capital of the South, to visit Chester and Laura Huntsman.
The Crossett relocation of the Yale Cabins has been nominated for placement on the Arkansas Register of Historic Places.
Crossett, 1955: The massive lumber and paper mills of the Crossett Lumber company that gave rise to the town's founding in the early 1900s, visible here from the air.
We pull into the parking lot of the giant Domtar Corp. facility at Ashdown, and I breathe in that familiar paper mill smell.
We pull into the parking lot of the giant Domtar Corp. facility at Ashdown, and I breathe in that familiar paper mill smell.